Cooties Bento Charaben Recipe bentoboxuk

• Cheese (enough for 3 large circles 1cm thick and some smaller circles)
• Processed Meat (enough for 3 large circles 1 cm thick)
• 1 Boiled Egg
• 3 leaves curly Lettuce
• half a cup Boiled white Rice
• 5 Stuffed green olives
• Nori dried toasted Seaweed 1 sheet

1. Boil the eggs and cook the rice
2. Lay out the lettuce leaves in 1 side of the Bento Box, and put the rice in the other side, once cooked.
3. Cut the cheese into circles the same diameter as the egg (use a cookie cutter or a baby bottle cap) Do the same to the meat.
4. Cut the boiled egg in half.
5. Cut small circles out of cheese slices for the eyes
6. Use a hole punch on the nori seaweed to get small dots for the pupils of the eyes
7. Arrange the pieces of food so that the Boiled egg forms the head and tail of the Cootie and the cheese and meat alternate in the middle to make a stripy body.
8. Arrange the stuffed olives on top of the rice and put the cheese eyes on top.
9. The legs can be made from the remaining scraps of meat.
10. The remaining scraps of cheese can be used to make toasted cheese sandwiches another day if you wish.

circles, circles, egg, curly lettuce, boiled white rice, green olives

Taken from www.chowhound.com/recipes/cooties-bento-charaben-28500 (may not work)